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Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

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David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
Biologist
Climate Activist
Environmentalist
Professor
Science Writer
Writer
Zoologist
Vancouver
British Columbia
David Takayoshi Suzuki
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Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
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Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.
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Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
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Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.
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Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
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The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.
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What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?
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A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.
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What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.
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If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.
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Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.
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Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.
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Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.
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The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
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Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.
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Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!
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More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
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I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.
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